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Title vignettes (portraits)
"The coat-armour of the stamps on the covers, displaying empaled, on the first volume Jerningham and Dillon, on the second Bedingfeld (quartering Tuddenham) and Jerningham, is taken from two bookplates of the last century which appertained to Cossey and Oxburgh respectively."--v. 2, p. vi